Steve Maestas, Managing Partner of NAI Maestas & Ward, announced that Christian Sanchez has joined the firm as an advisor. “Christian has eight years of experience in state and federal government and business. His financial expertise and invaluable knowledge of public and private sector budgeting will provide our clients with keen insights, investment guidance and creative solutions,” said Maestas.

From 2006 to 2011, Christian worked as a Senior Fiscal Analyst for the Legislative Finance Committee for the State of New Mexico overseeing the state operating budgets for the Regulation and Licensing Department and New Mexico Judiciary.

Previously, he was a Junior Associate with Ibarra Strategy Group in Washington, D.C., a governmental affairs and public relations firm. From 2004 to 2005, he worked as a Field Representative and Legislative Assistant for Congressman Brad Sherman handling labor and financial issues for the Congressman in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. and serving as the primary liaison to the Los Angeles Latino community. In New York from 2003 to 2004, he was a Global Markets Analyst for Merrill Lynch.

Christian graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts where he studied political science and economics. He received an Executive Masters in Business Administration from the Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management at the University of New Mexico in 2010.